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Most everything has been covered in this thread. Here's one more point I learned reading an old edition of Moving The Earth: The Workbook of Excavation.
Nichols says no one appreciates how easy it is using heavy equipment to pull a heavy vehicle out of a stuck ...while leaving its axles behind.
And I haven't seen in this thread much emphasis on another technique, particularly when offroading alone: use a Farm Jack to lift. Then put some material under the tires, to get moving again. Or another favorite back when I had a Willys Wagon: lift by the back hitch, clear to the top of the jack, then tip over the jack to drop the tires to undisturbed ground next to the ruts.
Nichols says no one appreciates how easy it is using heavy equipment to pull a heavy vehicle out of a stuck ...while leaving its axles behind.
And I haven't seen in this thread much emphasis on another technique, particularly when offroading alone: use a Farm Jack to lift. Then put some material under the tires, to get moving again. Or another favorite back when I had a Willys Wagon: lift by the back hitch, clear to the top of the jack, then tip over the jack to drop the tires to undisturbed ground next to the ruts.
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